Female flight attendants on South Korea’s Asiana Airlines, the country’s second largest commercial flight company, might be getting a uniform redesign after lobbying for the company to relax its incredibly strict appearance requirements. Asiana’s labor union has been working with South Korea’s human rights commission to make changes to the company’s 10-page list of appearance guidelines for female employees since last year and and only now has Asiana agreed to consider a uniform with trousers during the next uniform redesign, though there has been no indication on when that might be.
As of now, Asiana regulates its female flight attendants’ appearances down to the number of hairpins they’re allowed to wear, whether or not they’re allowed to wear glasses (they are, but only since January), the amount of eyeliner they wear, how they cover up facial blemishes, earring length and, of course, skirt-only uniforms.